Ottal: Jayaraj's film wins Crystal Bear at The Berlin International Film Festival

Ottal, an adaptation of Anton Chekhov's short story Vanaka, already has numerous awards to its credit. Now, as an addition, the film has won the prestigious Crystal Bear Award at the International Berlin Film Festival. The film won the award in the category Best Film for Children. The anno

Ottal, an adaptation of Anton Chekhov's short story Vanaka, already has numerous awards to its credit. Now, as an addition, the film has won the prestigious Crystal Bear Award at the International Berlin Film Festival.

The film won the award in the category Best Film for Children. The announcement was also made through the official Twitter handle of the film festival.

According to a report published in Manoramaonline, the jury members of the festival were highly impressed by the film and were 'blown away' by the way certain minute details were depicted.

Ottal bagged the National Award for Best Film on Environment Conservation/Preservation and It created a record at 20th International Film Festival Of Kerala by sweeping all the top awards. It also won many awards at IIFA Utsavam.

The film is about the story of an old fisherman and his grandson. Director Jayaraj is known for adapting literary classic into films. He has earlier made films based on Shakespeare's works such as Othello and Antony and Cleopatra.

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